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Category: Week 3

[Editor’s note: In the wake of the collective bargaining agreement this week, our coverage switched off of the events on the field. To complete the record, we are posting some of our analysis from earlier in the week.] One talking point making the rounds prior to the imminent agreement between the NFL and the locked…

The “blooper reel” of funny, frustrating, and exasperating NFL replacement official mistakes was very extensive going into Monday Night Football in Week 3. In one call, the “Fail Mary” smashed the blooper reel with a granite rock of mayhem, bewilderment, chaos, frustration, and questions about the quality of the product the National Football League is…

League officiating dept., of course, backs up call The NFL had one spectacular failure unfold before a national audience. So, they did what that grouchy curmudgeon on your block does every Halloween: turn off the lights and pretend they aren’t home. We asked when a statement was going to be released shortly after the result…

Many have asked whether the result of the game can be overturned by the commissioner. The league will listen to protests, and may even acknowledge the protest has merit, but every result of every game stands as final. Rule 17, Section 2 has detail on the commissioner’s authority to vacate the result of a game:…

Week 3: Packers at Seahawks The NFL is a brand built on integrity. It has a historical image that goes back to coal-mining towns of Ohio and Pennsylvania, which laid the foundation for the spectacle that every week of the season brings. But, in order to leverage a labor dispute, the league decided to risk…

Week 3: 49ers at Vikings [Editor’s note: This post has been significantly revised; see the explanation at the end.] Many considered it an egregious error by the replacement officials when the Seahawks gained an unearned fourth timeout in Week 1. What, then, is the appropriate adjective to modify the word error when a team is…

Did you see something from the replacement officials in Week 3? Let us know in the comments section of this post or tweet us @footballzebras. We will update this post periodically with some of the calls that got our attention.

We are expecting to get the officiating assignments piecemeal, rather than the full list. As we confirm, we will post here with the full spotters chart. In some cases, where the entire crew is not known to us, we have listed the crew that the head referee officiated with in a previous regular season week.